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Topic: friendship
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“Come to Saint Mary's...to give me the consolation of seeing you all, fervent and united, which is the greatest happiness that I can have in this world.”
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“Think sometimes of your poor Sister Theodore, who loves you so much, who prays for you, who thinks of you day and night.”
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“Oh, if you could understand the feelings of a mother's heart for a child which is not hers by nature but by grace - the feelings of the heart, I say for the temporal but more especially for the eternal happiness of her child - you would understand what I feel for you.”
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“Sister St. Francis Xavier is necessary for my existence. She is my oldest daughter, the friend of my soul, which she reads as I do hers. I have need of her advice, of her example. I will even say of her little scoldings.”
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“I should be happy indeed to console and fortify your soul; not being able to do so, I pray for you with all my heart.”
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“She encouraged me by her example and good counsels; she reproved me for my faults with a charity and courage which my brusqueness and my haughty and imperious character had never discouraged; in a word, she was everything to me.”
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“Her [Sister Saint Francis Xavier] example animates and confounds me. I am near her in the chapel distracted with temporalities and business, and I see her lost in God and melting with love for our Lord.”
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“To God alone be the glory of our labors, and to you, dear friends, the recompense on account of the assistance you will give us.”
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